Re:Toward _FORTIFY_SOURCE Parity Between Clang and GCC
by littlestymaar on Thursday February 13, 2020 @02:54AM
(#22316078)
> GCC and MSVC will die and there will be only one compiler on all platforms
That sounds like bad for C++ developers: competition is what made clang as good as it is now, and GCC improved a lot since Clang's threat happened. Also, Clangs bugs would become the de facto standard (this is happening right now on the web with Chrome).
Re:Toward _FORTIFY_SOURCE Parity Between Clang and GCC
by jhasse on Monday February 17, 2020 @04:58AM
(#22346607)
Competition is good, sure. But focusing the limited developing resources on one compiler, too. Without parallel universes it's hard to know what actually leads to a better compiler.
That sounds like bad for C++ developers: competition is what made clang as good as it is now, and GCC improved a lot since Clang's threat happened. Also, Clangs bugs would become the de facto standard (this is happening right now on the web with Chrome).
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